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Casey is pulling his Platformer newsletter from Substack, as criticism grows over the company's handling of pro-Nazi content. The Wall Street Journal then spoke to witnesses who said Elon Musk had used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, worrying some directors and board members of his companies. And finally, how researchers found a new class of antibiotics with the help of an artificial intelligence algorithm used to win the board game Go.
Today's guests:
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Kirsten Grind, business reporter at The Wall Street Journal
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Felix Wong, postdoctoral fellow at MIT and co-founder of Integrated Biosciences
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Credits
“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Davis Land and Raquel Cohn. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alicia Moxley and original music Daniel PowellMarion Lozano, Diane Wong and Pat McCusker. Fact check by Mary Mathis.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti, and Jeffrey Miranda.